Category: Macc Masters

The main set this last Friday evening was a 12 x 100 set and of those the first four were swum as freestyle. We did these on 1:40, which meant not necessarily a great deal of rest but enough given that we were only swimming four of these. What I found interesting was the times / effort involved in this broken 400 compared to the previous Wednesday’s 400 timed swim. And the fact that the broken 400 were all swum between 1:15 and 1:17 compared to the 1:27 pace of Wednesday.

And, yes I am well aware that a broken swim is not the same as a straight 400, and also that on Friday’s I am not wearing my drag shorts. But the difference between the two is huge – at least 10s per 100M.

Friday was a good session and showed the difference between wearing drag shorts and not – at least it did when I am swimming well. I ended up swimming in lane 8 – the fast lane, as the slowest of four. So I needed to swim fast (for me) just to make sure I wasn’t holding anyone up. As a result the 100 FR swims were all sub 1:20 (which is fast for me).

Set

Distance

Cumulative

Description

1 x 900

900

900

Swum as 8, 7, 6, …, 1 (even FR, odd BK) with 30 rest

12 x 100

1,200

2,100

Swum as 3 sets of 4. Sets 1 and 3 as FR, set 2 as choice (I did mix of EZ Fly & FR)

Finally back for an evening of swimming with Macclesfield Masters. These are traditional Masters sessions – so there is a decent amount of middle distance work and distance in general – especially as these are 90 minute sessions.

I enjoyed this one and it allowed an “interesting” comparison with my Wednesday efforts, because whilst on Wednesday I wear a pair of drag shorts, on Friday I don’t.

Not sure whether this makes much of a difference, but certainly I swim a lot faster (or may be, keep what speed I have for longer) than I do on Wednesdays.